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Attitudes

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Evaluations of a target expressed with some level of intensity.

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Subjective norms

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Beliefs about how people around them view their behaviour.

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Perceived behavioural control

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Ease with which people think they can engage in particular behaviour.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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People troubled by inconsistency between thoughts, feelings and actions and as a result experience an unpleasant emotional state or dissonance.

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Effort justification

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A common dissonance experience also comes from paying a high price for something that turns out disappointing

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Persuasion

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Process by which attitudes are changed.

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Central route

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People think carefully about the content of a message

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Peripheral route

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People are influenced by superficial cues in a message.

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Social influence

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Social influence refers to the many ways that people impact one another.

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Conformity

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Tendency to change one’s perceptions, beliefs, or behaviour in response to real or imagined pressure from others.

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What are the three major kinds of social influence

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Conformity, Compliance, Obedience

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Informational influence

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Influence producing conformity when a person believes others are correct in their judgment.

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Normative Influence

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Influence that produces conformity when a person fears the negative consequences of appearing deviant.

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Private Conformity

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Change in beliefs when a person truly accepts the position taken by others.

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Public Conformity

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Superficial change in behaviour produced by real or imagined group pressure without change in opinion.

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Compliance

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Changes in behaviour elicited by direct requests from others.

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Door in the Face Technique

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Making a very large request that one will certainly refuse and then following that with a more modest request

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Free gift technique

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Giving small gift to someone or doing a small favour increases likelihood to complying with subsequent request

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Foot in the Door Technique

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Compliance technique in which one makes an initial small request followed by a larger request involving the real behaviour of interest

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Low Balling Technique

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Strategy in which the person secures agreement with a request, but then increases the size of the request by revealing hidden costs

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That’s not all technique

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Strategy in which something is added as a bonus or reduced as a discount from the original offer

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Scarcity Technique-

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Strategy in which appeal of item increased by making it appear rare or temporary

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Emotional Contagion

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Emotional contagion is the spontaneous spread of emotions and related behaviors among individuals or groups

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Obedience

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Behaviour change produced by the commands of authority.

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Social facilitation
The process by which the presence of others enhances performance on easy tasks, but impairs performance on difficult tasks.
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Social loafing
The tendency for people to relax in the presence of others when their individual performance cannot be evaluated.
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Deindividuation
The loss of a person’s sense of individuality and the loosening of constraints on behaviour when people can’t be identified
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Groupthink
A group decision making style characterized by excessive pressure among group members for consensus leading to inadequate appraisal of options and poor decisions.
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Group polarization
The tendency for group discussion to exaggerate and strengthen the initial leanings of the members in a group.
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Similarity-Attraction-
People tend to like others who are more similar to themselves
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Attachment styles
The way a person typically interacts with significant other.
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4 types of attachment styles
Secure, Anxious preoccupied, Dismissing avoidant, Fearful Avoidance
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Three variables of love
Passion, Intimacy, Commitment
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Excitation transfer
Process by which arousal caused by one stimulus is added to arousal from a second stimulus and attributed to the second stimulus
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Four horsemen
Criticism, Defensiveness, Stone walling, contempt
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Destructive behaviors
These can involve actively harming the relationship or passively harming it.
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Constructive behaviors
These can involve actively trying to improve the relationship or passively remaining committed to the relationship.
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Kin Selection
Preferential helping of genetic relatives to increase likelihood that genes held in common will survive
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Reciprocal Altruism
Helping others increases odds that they help you in return.
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Arousal Cost-Reward Model
Observers of a victim’s suffering will want to help in order to relieve their own personal distress.
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Altruism
Motivated by the desire to improve another’s welfare.
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Egoism
Motivated by the desire to increase one’s own welfare.
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Bystander effect
Effect where the presence of others inhibits helping
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Good Samaritan Study
We may not act on good intentions at times because of distraction or time pressure
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Pluralistic ignorance
State in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviours are different from others in the group
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Diffusion of responsibility
Belief that others will or should take responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need.
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Good mood effect
Good mood increases helping behaviour.
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Aggression
behaviour intended to injure someone physically or psychologically.
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Violence
Aggression that is intended to cause extreme injury.
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Hostile or emotional aggression
Inflicting harm to hurt the target; usually a result of anger, frustration, or hatred.
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Instrumental aggression
Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value.
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Relational aggression
behaviour that is intended to damage another person’s social relationships.
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Social learning theory
behaviour is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of punishments and rewards.
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Culture of honour
Culture in which people are taught to defend their reputation by responding to threats and insults with aggression
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Frustration-Aggression Theory
Idea that (a) frustration always elicits the motive to aggress; and (b) all aggression is caused by frustration
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Displaced aggression
Aggressing against substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access
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Catharsis
Reduction in motive to aggress as a result of the imagined, observed, or actual act of aggression

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